Feb 14, 2019 | All Authors, Erica Avey, Memory Piece, Nightingale, Uncategorized
How do we participate in society and listen to testimonies when that might bring our own past comes to the surface? Avey guides us through this type of experience in this stream of conscious narrative about watching the testimonies on Sepember 28, 2018, and how...Jan 17, 2019 | All Authors, Barbara Edema, Memoir, Memory Piece, Nightingale, Prose
Reverend Dr. Barbara Edema returns to The Nightingale with a powerful story of healing. Earnest and honest, this piece takes us through her own story. Even after experiencing sexual violence within the church, Edema proves in her short memoir that it’s possible...Apr 28, 2017 | Memory Piece, Sara Connell
Mother Love by Sara Connell The story I played out growing up was The Ugly Duckling. For a time, even the nickname given to me by my mother was “Ug.” My two younger sisters seemed to move seamlessly from the womb into the family unit. I constantly felt the outsider:...